Hook and eye.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

H. A. ALDRED.

HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 21. 1905.

.7/WMJ W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed December 21,1905. Serial No. 292,691.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE A. ALDRED, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a hook and eye for attaching and detaching the meeting ends of, especially, ladies garments; and in such connection it relates particularly to the constructive arrangement of the hook and eye.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to so arrange a hook and eye as to form an immovable connection between the same when the hook occupies an operative position with respect to the eye; second, to provide for such purpose the eye with an offset and a projection and the bill of the hook with an opening adapted to receive the projection of the eye when the bill has been engaged by the offset of the eye; third, to so locate the projection with respect to the offset of the eye that in a certain position of the hook the bill thereof will be disengaged from the projection, and thus adapted to be slid out of engagement with the offset of the eye, and, fourth, to provide openings in the end portions of the eye so that those portions may be held in alinement with each other and with the offset of the eye elevated above the same to hold the bill of the hook beyond the article to which the eye may be suitably secured.

The nature and characteristic features of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, enlarged, of a hook and eye detached from each other embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the detached hook and eye. Fig. 3 is an underneath plan view of the same detached. Fig. 4 is an end elevational view of the hook and eye in engagement with each other and in dotted outline the hook, showing the manner of disengaging the hook from the eye; and Fig. 5 is an on derneath plan view of the hook and eye in engagement with each other.

Referring to the drawings, A is a wire hook provided with the fastening eyes or loops a and a, shank a the forward portion of which is bent into a bill a which is expanded into an opening a for a purpose to be presently fully described.

B is an eye formed, preferably, of wire, which is bent at one end to form an opening b and at the opposite end bent to form an opening I) and in addition thereto an extended portion Z) and an upwardly-bent portion to form a projection b extending above the end portions of the eye. Intermediate of the openings b and b the wire is bent into a substantially U-shape ofl'set 6*, projecting above the end portions and slightly above the projection b to form a passage-way b for the bill a of the hook a between the off set I) and projection 5 When the eye so formed is attached to a garment by sewing or otherwise, the thread will cover the respective end portions of the eye up to the offset 1) thereof, which leaves the eye substantially covered on the garment. The offset portion of the eye being left free of thread permits of the ready engagement of the hook A by holding the same in a position such as indicated in dotted outline in Fig. 4. In this position the bill a passes readily between the projection b and offset 1) of the eye, and by bringing the hook into a position parallel to the end portions of the eye, as shown in full lines in Fig. 4, the bill will be brought into engagement with the projection N, which now extends into the opening a of the bill of the hook A. In this position the bill a of the hook is immovably held in engagement with the offset b" of the eye and is thus prevented from being disengaged therefrom, and at the same time the bill a is held by the offset 6* above the garment, (not shown,) to which the eye may be suitably secured, thus protecting certain character of garments against wear by the bill of the hook. The disengagement of the hook from the eye is rendered almost impossible for the reason that the hook being connected with the garment at the end opposite to the bill will be held by the garment in an operative position, as shown in full lines in Fig. 4, in which the hook occupies a position parallel to the end portions of the eye. However, a sli ht movement will be permitted to the hoo by the pro'ection b as the yielding of the portion b of the eye permits of a slight movement of the projection b in a horizontal plane, thus preventing tearing of the garment due to unyielding connection between the hook and eye. The projection b being arranged at a right angle to the offset b* holds the hook in such position in respect to the eye, thereby preventing any movement in a direction toward the end portions of the eye. When the hook is to be disengaged from the eye, the same must be brought into an oblique position with respect .to the eye and against the tension ofthe garment, so that the loop-like bill may be brought out of engagement with the projection I)? of the eye, as clearly indicated in dotted outline in Fig. 4. By the forward move-- ment of the hook the bill 6 thereof can now be readily disengaged from the offset 17 of the eye, and in this instance the projection 12 will render such disengagement easy by yielding slightly in a direction toward the plane of the end portions of the eye. In the opera tive position of the hook and eye the offset 6 and projection]; of the eye are completely covered by the hook and are thus rendered substantially invisible to the eye. The eye in its outline is oblong and can therefore be attached close to the edge of a garment without presenting an unsightly fastening means on the garment to View.

Having thus described the nature and obects of my invention, What I claim as new,

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Means for detachably fastening garments, comprising a hook With an open bill, and an eye with an intermediate projection, one end of said eye provided with a bar arranged substantially parallel to the plane of the eye and having a projection adapted to enter the open bill of said hook, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. Means for detachably fastening garments, comprising a hook with an opening in the bill, and an eye having end loops and an intermediate substantially U-shaped projection arranged above the plane of the loops and body of the eye and one of the loops formed into abar located substantially in the plane of the body of the eye and terminating in a projection adapted to enter the opening in the bill of said hook, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In witnesswhereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HORACE A. ALDRED- Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

